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Fall 2023
May 10, 2024 |
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| HIST 239 - MODERN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY |
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Prerequisites/Corequisites: Placement into ENGL111 English Composition I with ENGL070 English Composition I Workshop, or higher.
Modern Latin American History surveys Latin American history from the independence movements of the early nineteenth century until the present. Through an examination of both primary and secondary source material, students in this course will explore political, economic, social, and cultural developments in Latin America including class structures, inequality, and uneven economic development, race, indigeneity, gender, and ethnicity, social movements, imperialism, rebellion, and revolution, authoritarianism and democracy, human rights, globalization, migration, and U.S.-Latin American relations. Students will emerge from this course with a deeper understanding and appreciation of Latin America’s connection to the world and the major role that Latin Americans have had in shaping human history. Students in this course will be able to better understand the history of the Americas and to think critically about the historical origins of contemporary issues such as social and political movements in Latin America, U.S.-Latin American relations, and Latin American migration.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours Levels: Academic Schedule Types: Lecture Liberal and Fine Arts Division Humanities Social Sci & Educ Department Course Attributes: Global &Cultural Gen Education, Free Elective, General Education, History General Education, Humanities General Education  View Textbook Info
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